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Persistent user groups on servers managed by central servers

  • US 6,311,205 B1
  • Filed: 10/19/1998
  • Issued: 10/30/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a client server computer network comprised of a central server, and a plurality of managed servers, and in which network full synchronization of managed server records is controlled by said central server, a method for synchronization of user records on managed servers with user records on said central server, including the steps of:

  • sending a status update pulse from the central server to managed servers on the network;

    sending, in response to said pulse update record, a return request from a managed server to the central server for update records;

    sending, in response to said return request, from said central server to said managed server, an update record request or a request for full synchronization;

    defining at the managed server a set of user records locally on the managed server to be persistent accounts on this managed server;

    excluding at the managed server from potential changes on the managed server, as a result of a central server full synchronization request, those user records that have been defined as persistent accounts.

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